Photo: SamuelFreli · CC BY-SA 3.0For every 1,000 homes, Cowansville permitted 41.9 new ones a year; Quebec’s towns permitted 15.1
Asked in 2021, owners gave a median value of $250,000; averaged, their homes came to $294,000. Keep in mind these are owners’ estimates from the 2021 census, not recorded sales. Statistics Canada doesn’t publish sales in Quebec, so nothing here says what Cowansville’s homes actually sold for. The municipal roll for 2024 values single-family homes at a median $352,800, at July 1, 2022 prices.
Two ways to price a home in Cowansville
Every figure here is compared within the province, against Quebec’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $294K
- Owners
- 3,475
- Quebec’s towns
- $300K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
single-family, market at July 1, 2022
- Quebec’s towns
- $353K
Census 2021 (Statistics Canada); Canadian Housing Statistics Program, tables 46-10-0099 and 46-10-0093; Québec rôle d’évaluation foncière 2026 (MAMH).
Plexes hold 23% of Cowansville’s dwellings, against 16% for Quebec’s towns
Dwellings on the roll of Cowansville: 41% in single-family houses, 34% in buildings of six units or more, 23% in plexes and 3% in condos.
Median roll value by kind, 2024 the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Dwellings by kind of building
Rôle d’évaluation foncière 2024 (MAMH): a kind’s median needs 10 units or more; plexes are valued per building; each municipality’s roll has its own market date. The ticks are the median of Québec’s municipalities with their own roll.
45% of Cowansville lives in apartments, where Quebec’s towns have 22%
The 2021 census counted 6,980 occupied homes in Cowansville. Half went up before 1981.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Cowansville | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 9% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 1% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 4% | 3% | 7% |
Census 2021 (Statistics Canada): occupied private dwellings; core housing need as Statistics Canada defines it. Ticks and columns are medians of the towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more.
The peak came in 2022, when Cowansville permitted 368 new homes
Some 276 homes a year: 1,656 in all were permitted in Cowansville from 2018 to 2023. Apartments and other multi-unit buildings dominate: only 15% were single-unit, against 39% for Quebec’s towns.
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Statistics Canada, tables 46-10-0087 (building permits by census subdivision, 2018–2023: dwelling units created, new construction and conversions) and 34-10-0292 (monthly, metro areas). Per 1,000: units a year over 2019–2023 against occupied homes in 2021.
Cowansville is 17% below the $300,000 median of Quebec’s towns
The census values of Quebec’s towns, 510 of them with 2,500+ people, from dearest to cheapest.
Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.
Cowansville’s neighbours by home value
Next to Cowansville: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cowansville | $250K | $294K | 50% | |
| Brigham | $250K | $295K | 91% | 6.2 |
| Dunham | $300K | $377K | 83% | 6.7 |
| Bromont | $448K | $537K | 76% | 12.7 |
| Saint-Alphonse-de-Granby | $276K | $294K | 89% | 13.1 |
| Sutton | $448K | $494K | 76% | 16.2 |
| Lac-Brome | $400K | $561K | 82% | 16.8 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Cowansville
Is Cowansville expensive for Quebec?
Less than most: Quebec’s towns have a median of $300,000, and Cowansville sits below it.
How many households in Cowansville are in core housing need?
About as many as elsewhere: 4% of households in Cowansville, where Quebec’s towns sit at 3%.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Census of Population 2021 · Statistics Canada, building permits (tables 46-10-0087 and 34-10-0292) · Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l’Habitation, rôle d’évaluation foncière 2026. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).